The Driskill
Details
- Date
- March 17, 2017
- Venue
- The Driskill Austin, Texas
- Billed As
- Richard Barone Presents Greenwich Village in the Sixties
- Gig Type
- Concert
- Guests
- Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Lewis, Jesse Colin Young, Joolz Jones
Set List
- When I'm Gone Richard Barone set
- Don't Make Promises Peter Lewis & Arwen Lewis set
- Did You ever Have to Make Up Your Mind Peter Lewis & Arwen Lewis set
- I'll Be Your Mirror Velvet Underground Robyn Hitchcock
- Chimes of Freedom Bob Dylan Robyn Hitchcock
- Kathy's Song Young Mister set
- One of Us Cannot Be Wrong Young Mister set
- So Long Marianne Young Mister set
- Four in the Morning Jessie Colin Young set
- Dolphins Jessie Colin Young set
- Get Together Jessie Colin Young set
- A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall The Band Of Heathens set
- This Land Is Your Land Joolz Jones set
- My Back Pages Joolz Jones set
Reviews
Online review by the Austin Chronicle
Excerpt:
Musicians have documented their place of origin since minstrelsy was invented. Florida native Richard Barone moved to the Big Apple in time for punk and New Wave, and eventually settled into Greenwich Village in the lower part of New York City. In the Sixties, it became ground zero of the folk explosion.
Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, Dave Van Ronk, and many more wrote and sang their own songs there and helped revolutionize the era. Barone’s latest album explores some of those compositions and at his SXSW showcase Friday night at the Driskill, he expanded the concept by having an array of singer-songwriters from around the globe sing them.
The host introduced the evening with an explanation of what was about to unfold, a “marathon” he called it, five hours of groundbreaking songs. Kicking it all off, he shared Phil Ochs’ “When I’m Gone” in a clear tenor bundling obvious reverence. The 90 minutes that followed provided more than enough remarkable moments, performances that perfectly melded singer and song.
Robyn Hitchcock provided the standing-room-only crowd with its first such moment, a breathless reading of Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom.”
Excerpt:
Musicians have documented their place of origin since minstrelsy was invented. Florida native Richard Barone moved to the Big Apple in time for punk and New Wave, and eventually settled into Greenwich Village in the lower part of New York City. In the Sixties, it became ground zero of the folk explosion.
Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, Dave Van Ronk, and many more wrote and sang their own songs there and helped revolutionize the era. Barone’s latest album explores some of those compositions and at his SXSW showcase Friday night at the Driskill, he expanded the concept by having an array of singer-songwriters from around the globe sing them.
The host introduced the evening with an explanation of what was about to unfold, a “marathon” he called it, five hours of groundbreaking songs. Kicking it all off, he shared Phil Ochs’ “When I’m Gone” in a clear tenor bundling obvious reverence. The 90 minutes that followed provided more than enough remarkable moments, performances that perfectly melded singer and song.
Robyn Hitchcock provided the standing-room-only crowd with its first such moment, a breathless reading of Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom.”